How Can I Keep from Reading?
August 12, 2007 books recommended by contributors
Homer, The Iliad (trans. by Robert Fagels). Pat Watkins Noddings, Nel, Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach (2006). Mary Frantz Niven, Jennifer, Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (2003). Mary Mullen Gildiner, Catherine, Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir (1999, 2002). Rose Smith Pullman, Philip, Golden Compass Trilogy. Amy Armstrong Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations. Amy Armstrong Pollan, Michael, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006). Galen Smith Brennan, Tom, Cold Crime: How Police Detectives Solved Alaska's Most Shocking Cases (2005). Galen Smith Gelman, Rita Golden, Tales of a Female Nomad Tsukiyama, Gail, Women of the Silk (1991). Sonya Sidky Tsukiyama, Gail, The Language of Threads (1999). Sonya Sidky Sayers, Dorothy, Strong Poison. Anne Urbanski Sayers, Dorothy, Have His Carcase. Anne Urbanski Fergus, Jim, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (1998). Heidi Hughes Gruen, Sara, Water for Elephants (2006). Jean Matos Yann, Life of Pi (2002). Jim Cunningham & Martel The Epic of Gilgamesh (most recent translation). Kathy Ducat Grogan, John, Marley and Me (2006). Kathy Ducat Eugenides, Jeffrey, Middlesex (2002). Anne Lundin Peck, Richard, A Long Way from Chicago (2000). Mary Lou Diehl Peck, Richard, A Year Down Yonder (2001). Mary Lou Diehl Nesbitt, E., Five Children and It. Robin Proud Eager, Edward, Half Magic. Robin Proud Kingsolver, Barbara, Prodigal Summer. Gennifer Lawrence Kingsolver, Barbara, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007). Gennifer Lawrence Mortenson, Greg, Three Cups of Tea (2005) Ferguson, Niall, The War of the World: 20th Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006). KK Anderson LA Theater (sound rec), Proof and Going to St. Ives. Erin Bosch